Lord Arthur Savile's Crime and Other Prose Pieces
by Wilde, Oscar
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
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About This Item
London: Methuen and Co. 1908, One of 1000 copies printed. (Hardcover) 266pp. Very good, no dust jacket. Cream cloth with gilt lettering and gilt designs on the cover and spine. Top edge gilt, some pages still uncut. The front and back cover is soiled, the spine is worn and darkened, the endpapers are lightly spotted, a crack in the text block at p. 65 and there is a previous owner's bookplate on the front endpaper. "This edition on handmade paper is limited to 1000 copies for the United Kingdom and America". (Drama, Plays, Theater).
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Details
- Bookseller
- Burton Lysecki Books, ABAC/ILAB (CA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 148929
- Title
- Lord Arthur Savile's Crime and Other Prose Pieces
- Author
- Wilde, Oscar
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Methuen and Co.
- Place of Publication
- London
- Keywords
- Drama, Plays, Theater
- Bookseller catalogs
- Drama and Theater;
Terms of Sale
Burton Lysecki Books, ABAC/ILAB
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About the Seller
Burton Lysecki Books, ABAC/ILAB
Biblio member since 2003
Winnipeg, Manitoba
About Burton Lysecki Books, ABAC/ILAB
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Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Bookplate
- Highly sought after by some collectors, a book plate is an inscribed or decorative device that identifies the owner, or former...
- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Soiled
- Generally refers to minor discoloration or staining.
- Top Edge Gilt
- Top edge gilt refers to the practice of applying gold or a gold-like finish to the top of the text block (the edges the pages...
- Text Block
- Most simply the inside pages of a book. More precisely, the block of paper formed by the cut and stacked pages of a book....